Diplomacy is an area of specialty in International Relations that focuses on the study of tactical

inter-governmental relationships aimed to advance national interests without being

confrontational between/among nations. Those who are graduates of the discipline and carry out
its functions on behalf of their country are called diplomats.

1. Diplomacy is the vessel for peaceful cooperation, dialogue, negotiation, cohesion and
harmony between/among nations.

2. Diplomacy is the governmental channels for economic/trade, social, cultural, political and
technological knowledge anchored on mutual relationships between/among nations.

3. Diplomacy is a veritable means for conflict resolution, peace-building in crisis situations

between/among nations.

4. Diplomacy facilitates information, communication and knowledge exchange/sharing

between/among nations.

Diplomacy is a science of communication, dealing and negotiations between two nations through
their bureaucratic channel. It is an established methods of influencing the decisions and behavior
of foreign governments and people through dialogue, negotiations and other measures short of
war or violence. In diplomacy there is always a path to find solution of a problems above all
difficulties. It is the best known method to solve the disputes between two territories. Diplomacy
even helps to cope with hardship of poverty and developmental interruptions.

To understand how diplomacy works there is a fine example of India China Doklam dispute.

The term diplomacy is derived via French from the ancient Greek diplōma, composed of diplo,
meaning “folded in two,” and the suffix -ma, meaning “an object.” The folded document
conferred a privilege—often a permit to travel—on the bearer, and the term came to denote
documents through which princes granted such favours. Later it applied to all solemn documents
issued by chancelleries, especially those containing agreements between sovereigns. Diplomacy
later became identified with international relations, and the direct tie to documents lapsed (except
in diplomatics, which is the science of authenticating old official documents). In the 18th century
the French term diplomate (“diplomat” or “diplomatist”) came to refer to a person authorized to
negotiate on behalf of a state.

The purpose of diplomacy is to strengthen the state, nation, or organization it serves in relation to
others by advancing the interests in its charge. To this end, diplomatic activity endeavors to
maximize a group’s advantages without the risk and expense of using force and preferably
without causing resentment. It habitually, but not invariably, strives to preserve peace;
diplomacy is strongly inclined toward negotiation to achieve agreements and resolve issues
between states. Even in times of peace, diplomacy may involve coercive threats of economic or
other punitive measures or demonstrations of the capability to impose unilateral solutions to
disputes by the application of military power. However, diplomacy normally seeks to develop
goodwill toward the state it represents, nurturing relations with foreign states and peoples that
will ensure their cooperation or—failing that—their neutrality.

Tools of diplomacy:

 TREATIES must be passed by the parliament and approved by the president. It helps

finding solutions for territorial disputes. A fine example is India Bangladesh Treaty of
land exchange.

 CONVENTIONS often include many signatories and for which the original signatories
encourage other countries to join long after the original agreement is reached. In 1973,
for example, representatives of 80 countries agreed on a Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to protect rare plants and animals around the
world.

 ALLIANCES among nations are often formed for mutual economic, political or security
benefit, and can be multilateral or bilateral. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) was formed in 1949 to serve as a bulwark against threats by the communist
Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the
dissolution of Pact nations, many Eastern European nations have joined NATO, thus
changing and expanding its defensive outlook. A bilateral example is the US-South
Korea Mutual Defense Treaty of 1953.
 ACCORDS are voluntary agreements that countries enter into instead of a treaty or while
they try to work out the terms of a treaty. The Paris Accord is an agreement among
nations to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases.

1. Diplomacy is blend of art and science to adjust an unadjusted

2. To shrunk the gap between differences of opinion

3. To bring parties down from stated position's to mutual ground of understanding

4. To introduce win-win situations for both parties

5. To reach on common ground with power of logic and reason

6. To induct tools of reasoning in contusive environment

7. To bring the temperature down when there is hostility

8. To give room to other party on negotiation table when expectations are very high

9. To exercise the tools restrain and patience

10. To cement the sense that opposite is equally important

11. To exercise the power if reasoning while keeping emotions taped

12. To give a room to differences and adjust them in lieu of opposite impulses

13. To introduce unconventional method having capacity to mitigate differences

14. To reach on minimum possible ground and keep the parlays on track

15. To smile at highest degree of hostile environment with diplomatic gestures

16. To introduce array of option's when there is stalemate

17. To know how to exercise art of bargaining

18. Having fingers on the pulse of human behavior

19. To make an entire structure on rubbles and reconstruct it

20. To market the levers in hand while knowing what are in kitty of opponent

21. Knowing the strengths and weakness of opponent is an entry point

22. Controlling intervening and manipulative variables and milking them at appropriate time

23. Having equipped with power of knowledge of particular area and maintaining sense of
hummer up to eleventh hour